engineyard.com Archives - 12 December 2012, Wednesday

The majority of Engine Yard Cloud customers run one application in an environment and many of them customize their application’s environments (production, staging, etc) using custom recipes. We do the same thing internally[1]. One thing we like to do is to run our custom recipes durin...

Email blacklisting occurs when your mail server’s IP address is added to a list and other mail servers begin rejecting your email. This occurs because the list you were added to is meant to protect companies from spam. One way to end up on this list is to send an email to a honeypot —...

Let’s face it: outages are a pain. They’re also unavoidable. Whether your application is in the cloud or on physical hardware, it’s bound to encounter failures eventually. To help mitigate these failures, we recommend using a High Availability (HA) configuration for mission-critical a...

I am very excited to announce that your Engine Yard Cloud account can provision new environments in an Australia datacenter. This is in part thanks to our infrastructure provider Amazon, and part due to the quick work by our Engine Yard engineers to add and test the new region. We alr...

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This is an Engine Yard PSA for all of our customers to make sure you aware of and taking full advantage of the monitoring that is included with our platform! Here is an overview about Engine Yard Cloud’s monitoring: https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/20996816-about-monitorin...

2012 is almost over and we want to give everyone an update on what the Data Team has been working on. We have a new database version available for all customers, and a preview of what will be shipping soon. So sit tight because we have a lot to tell! First, let’s talk about Postgres. ...

Over the past few months we’ve noticed that some cloud terminology has been confusing for customers, so this is an Engine Yard PSA to help people understand how to achieve a more highly available (HA) environment. While the public perception is that servers in the cloud are removed fr...

2012 is almost over and we want to give everyone an update on what the Data Team has been working on. We have a new database version available for all customers, and a preview of what will be shipping soon. So sit tight because we have a lot to tell! First, let’s talk about Postgres. ...

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As you can see, Engine Yard Local serves as a nifty way to save you from going through the process of signing up for an account, configuring everything, deploying your application, and paying for your instances – only to find out that something is not working. With Engine Yard Local, ...

As you can see, Engine Yard Local serves as a nifty way to save you from going through the process of signing up for an account, configuring everything, deploying your application, and paying for your instances – only to find out that something is not working. With Engine Yard Local, ...

Engine Yard was founded in 2006 to help professional developers create and deliver great applications. By providing a commercial-grade application platform, Engine Yard lets developers focus on writing code instead of managing complex application environments. Six years later, there a...

Engine Yard was founded in 2006 to help professional developers create and deliver great applications. By providing a commercial-grade application platform, Engine Yard lets developers focus on writing code instead of managing complex application environments. Six years later, there a...

Automated testing makes development agile, and Continuous Integration takes the human error out of “manually run” automated testing. But getting a continuous integration environment working smoothly for your organization can be daunting, whether you hacked it all together, bought some...

There’s nothing glamorous about it. You are not a rockstar, but a janitor. You will clean a lot of data. A LOT. Most people don’t and won’t care about data. That’s right.. There is a lot of mathematics involved. Get over it. Some people will get offended with your findings. People are...

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There’s nothing glamorous about it. You are not a rockstar, but a janitor. You will clean a lot of data. A LOT. Most people don’t and won’t care about data. That’s right.. There is a lot of mathematics involved. Get over it. Some people will get offended with your findings. People are...

There’s nothing glamorous about it. You are not a rockstar, but a janitor. You will clean a lot of data. A LOT. Most people don’t and won’t care about data. That’s right.. There is a lot of mathematics involved. Get over it. Some people will get offended with your findings. People are...

Smart and passionate about software, you care about customers. Hopefully, you’re active in Open Source, or you participate in community conversations or meetups. You welcome challenges, and enjoy working closely with both local and distributed teammates. You’ve automated hoards of ser...

Smart and passionate about software, you care about customers. Hopefully, you’re active in Open Source, or you participate in community conversations or meetups. You welcome challenges, and enjoy working closely with both local and distributed teammates. You have built and maintained ...

Engine Yard is excited to announce the opening of its office in Buffalo, NY on October 1, 2012! The Buffalo space is our premier East Coast office and will join the ranks of our other hubs in San Francisco, Portland, Dublin and Tokyo. The office will be staffed by members of the engin...

Engine Yard is excited to announce the opening of its office in Buffalo, NY on October 1, 2012! The Buffalo space is our premier East Coast office and will join the ranks of our other hubs in San Francisco, Portland, Dublin and Tokyo. The office will be staffed by members of the engin...

“We can’t add any more features”, I said to Cillian. We had reached that point when building a web app using Rails that if we added another line to that controller, I couldn’t help but feel the whole thing would come crashing down, like placing the last block in a game of Jenga. “We n...

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“We can’t add any more features”, I said to Cillian. We had reached that point when building a web app using Rails that if we added another line to that controller, I couldn’t help but feel the whole thing would come crashing down, like placing the last block in a game of Jenga. “We n...

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Here's What You Get 500 compute hours for free A full-featured production ready environment Start and stop your environment as needed Risk-free: your data will remain available for 90 days after trial completion Test Drive your Ruby Application on Engine Yard Get Started RISK-FREE “By...

TCP connections go through various states during their lifetime. There’s the handshake that goes through multiple states, then the ESTABLISHED state, and then a whole bunch of states for either end to terminate the connection, and finally a TIME_WAIT state that lasts a really long tim...